Jay Zisch

Experience

Where I've worked and what I've done.

Solutions Architect

Zeal IT Consultants

Apr 2026 — Present
  • Technical leadership and solutions architecture for enterprise mobile consulting engagements.

Senior iOS Mobile Consultant

Zeal IT Consultants

Sep 2024 — Apr 2026
  • Designed and implemented reusable SwiftUI components for multi-factor authentication, flight booking, and reservation management on the Southwest Airlines mobile app.
  • Established comprehensive unit, snapshot, and integration testing strategies achieving approximately 99% code coverage across critical modules using XCTest and Swift Testing.
  • Collaborated closely with backend engineers, designers, and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable customer-facing features.
  • Mentored engineers through code reviews and architecture discussions, promoting best practices in SwiftUI architecture and reusable component design.
  • Integrated AI-assisted development workflows to support test generation, documentation creation, and exploration of unfamiliar code paths.

iOS Engineer Software Consultant

Zeal IT Consultants

Aug 2023 — Oct 2024
  • Built a declarative DSL UI library to increase development productivity, reduce data race bugs, and improve code readability and testability for the ADT project.
  • Wrote comprehensive documentation to facilitate knowledge transfer across the team.
  • Collaborated closely with stakeholders, designers, Android, backend, and firmware teams to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Built components exceeding deadlines with minimal defects for the Trusted Neighbor feature, including policy creation flow, geofence/iBeacon detection, and Z-wave Yale lock user creation.
  • Became an expert in iBeacon technologies and helped the QA team with performance testing and finding bugs within Yale's iBeacon firmware.
  • Created sound detection shortcuts and user dashboards using Core Data, SwiftUI, and SwiftCharts for Hamelintech's new app.

Senior iOS Mobile Engineer

PayPay Corporation

Jan 2021 — Dec 2022
  • Owned development of critical UI components — CLM/Action banners, Favorite Mini-App Folder, Dynamic Tab Bar — on the Home, Authentication, and Payment screens.
  • Maintained a consumer app with 99.9%+ crash-free rate and a 4.6-star App Store rating.
  • Designed and implemented automated unit and integration tests based on business requirements.
  • Mentored team members through pair programming sessions and code reviews.
  • Implemented a system enabling QA teams to create automated tests for features controlled by feature flags and cookies.
  • Led architectural discussions on Reactive programming, coding standards, meta-programming, and documentation.
  • Delivered the OAuth2 (PKCE, JWT) token migration feature; monitored post-release with analytics and Firebase Crashlytics.
  • Collaborated with QA, UX, backend, web, and Android teams across a distributed international environment.

iOS Mobile Engineer

Rakuten

Jan 2020 — Jan 2021
  • Built an iOS Rich Push Notification Dynamic Library allowing server-driven layout changes via push payload display data.
  • Designed and implemented automated unit and integration tests based on business requirements.
  • Wrote technical documentation on operation and design.
  • Identified tracking issues in Analytics and Push Notification libraries, presented findings to management, and fixed the issues.
  • Owned feature development and bug fixes for the Push Notification SDK, making it performant, unit tested, and modern.
  • Collaborated with engineers and stakeholders to build and enhance React Native functionality for an internal mobile app.

iOS Mobile Engineer

trippiece

May 2017 — Jan 2020
  • Owned 95% of all feature development on the iOS platform.
  • Maintained a consumer app with 99%+ crash-free rate and a 4.6-star App Store rating.
  • Created a clean and maintainable MVC system utilizing reusable components, reducing app size by 50%.
  • Increased revenue streams through integration of advertising.
  • Built features including favorite article list, image uploading, article tag searching, and Google Maps location clustering.
  • Stored models locally using Realm Database for a better user experience in poor network conditions.

Freelance iOS App Developer

Freelance

Jul 2015 — May 2017
  • Rebuilt an iOS TV streaming app from Objective-C to Swift with updated designs.
  • Built an application allowing users to view schedules and sign up for events at a dance festival.

iOS Mobile Engineer

AT&T

May 2013 — Jul 2016
  • Contributed to rebuilding the consumer app from Objective-C to Swift.
  • Designed and implemented UI components for controlling and managing IoT devices.
  • Built features to improve camera feed video experience (migrated to HLS player), support multiple orientations, and support iPad.
  • Designed, prototyped, and implemented a tvOS app.
  • Created a graph tool to display info acquired from health IoT devices.
  • Contributed to rebranding and localization of the system.
  • Set up an automated build server using Jenkins to run automated tests.

iOS Mobile Engineer Intern

Unbounded Solutions, Inc.

Feb 2013 — May 2013
  • Designed and built an iOS game using Cocos2D.

C# Developer Intern

Dream Quest Games

May 2012 — Aug 2012
  • Fixed bugs and tested features.
  • Integrated a new AI into the checkers game.